Leadership Quotes
Leadership comes in many forms... It can obviously be crucial on the battlefield. History is littered with great military leaders. And they usually aren't shy about expressing WHY they were such great leaders! ;-p But it ain't all about military battles. There are battles on the sports field and battles in the boardroom that also need great leaders and great leadership! I think the great thing about these leadership quotes is precisely their versatility. You can apply them to any number of situations. For example, throwing up a few leadership quotes at the office is a great way to instill a little passion in everyone. Please understand that I'm not advising you to wallpaper the office with Napoleon and Patton leadership quotes while yelling: "JUST FOLLOW MY LEAD!!!" ;-p After said warning... I hope you enjoy this collection of leadership quotes!
Leadership Quotes"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
"Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
"The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way."
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
"Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves."
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."
"Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you."
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
"Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes."
"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership."
“To lead the people, walk behind them.”
"When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out."
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
"To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult."
"We must become the change we want to see."
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
“One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
“Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.”
"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."
”A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
”You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.”
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."
”How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?”
"If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Succesful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character."
I hope these leadership quotes gave you some inpiration and perhaps a few words to tell your players, your employees or even yourself!
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